Iggy Pop wrote "Lust For Life" with David Bowie, who came up with the music on a ukulele.
Bruce Springsteen wrote "Blinded By The Light," which was a #1 hit for Manfred Mann's Earth Band. The "Madman Drummers" line is a reference to Springsteen's first E-Street drummer, Vinnie "Mad dog" Lopez.
The hit duet "Somewhere Out There" was written for an animated film about a family of immigrant mice who lose one of their young.
A one-ton bell was custom made for AC/DC's "Hell's Bells." The recording was slowed to half speed to make it sound like a more ominous two-ton bell.
KT Tunstall's "Suddenly I See" was inspired by Robert Mapplethorpe's photograph of Patti Smith on the cover of her album Horses.
Have you got the smarts to know which of these graduation song stories are real?
The renown rock singer talks about "The House of the Rising Sun" and "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood."
On the "schizoid element" of his lyrics, and a famous line from "Everything Zen."
Billie Jean, Delilah, Sara, Laura and Sharona - do you know who the girls in the songs really are?
From "Some Day My Prince Will Come" to "Let It Go" - how Disney princess songs (and the women who sing them) have evolved.
How well do you know this shock-rock harbinger who's been publicly executed hundreds of times?
